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RebolekGood news, everyone! Red 0.6.6 is out with improved memory management and other goodies!
https://www.red-lang.org/2025/03/066-memory-management-improvements.html
MysticBasil 🇺🇦v0.6.6 of my personal favourite #redlang #programming language is out - one step closer to a long-awaited 1.0 release. This time, the memory management model got a lot of love!
https://www.red-lang.org/2025/03/066-memory-management-improvements.html
#programming #ziglang #odinlang #redlang
Actually, quite nice and detailed overview, even if you might not necessarily agree with the author on some points.
Neither #redlang nor #rebol before it had any real hype machines promoting them, so it is rather unlikely that you have heard of those unique #programming languages. But they have their loyal community and are even used in production by those brave enough to dive in.
https://redlcv.blogspot.com/2024/12/signal-processing-with-red-and-rebol.html
Энтропия РонинаА вот подъехал и #tui для #redlang (https://www.red-lang.org/). Давно хотел потыкать палочкой в #rebol, появился кандидат для этого.
В целом - пока есть желание вообще посмотреть на что способен Red/System, узнать на сколько оно пригодно для написание прикладного и системного софта. Хочется какой-то странной замены pure #C.
Зачем? Всё ещё в стадии экспериментов по поводу VM для современного диалекта #refal. Но пока это только мысли
avmakt@arrdem #REBOL had a refreshing take on GUI programming, and made things, well, easy. I bought a license back in the day and had a few small apps in production at work.
However, as a closed language it never took off and soon atrophied.
I check in on #RedLang now and again, and while it is getting there, things move very slow. It still suffers from legacy cruft that prevents it from really being usable on the platforms I prefer.
Perhaps there are some REBOL adjacent languages out there?
@arrdem
On the less savory side, the biggest issue with #redlang is its rather anemic development pace, legacy bootstrap tooling and still being stuck in 32-bit era.
At this time I would rather suggest going with Oldes'es #Rebol fork instead - https://github.com/Oldes/Rebol3
The biggest thing you will be missing is GUI toolkit support, but I would argue that is not a critical sacrifice.
Have a look at my naive implementation of the Voronoi diagram, as an example, to get a taste of it:
